Hardware,
Congratulations on your new purchases! The New Haven electric Looks like it is,painted in Pittsburgh professional sports teams colors. Though I don't follow the team, I see lots of Steelers cars and engines around here. I follow baseball and hockey too a bit instead!
While we don't see NH engines in those colors, your liking it is all that matters!
Wow on the Veranda Turbine! I see it runs on 072 curves. I don't have the room for that myself. I am sure it will look super once you get it on the track!
Unless you have a lot of cash, don't get too carried away. Although I did smaller scale modeling for over 40 years before switching to O gauge 3 years ago, I made a few lesser purchases that I realized later I shouldn't have. It was no loss, I learned from them, had some fun with them, and so far have been able to seek some of them for not much less than I paid. I am still learning nuances specific to O gauge that are different from HO and N scales.
have fun with trains!!
Thanks very much Mark!
From what I understand on the New Haven EP-5 there were 2 color schemes (do people prefer to call them livery?) provided to NH back in the mid 50's by General Electric. The one I bought (Canary Yellow) is the one that lost the battle against the normal red-orange scheme we are used to seeing. I simply bought this one over the standard to have something different and maybe it would be a conversation starter. Guess that worked. : ) I love the standard one as well and will have one someday.
My goal is to have each UP Turbine. I don't think I'm going to setup a normal layout with 0-72, but I might do a shelf train with bigger curves just for the bigger engines. That's the current idea anyway. Maybe setup on carpet temporarily.
I definitely don't have money to blow. The price tag on the Veranda seems high because it's from a Canadian dealer. I paid a good bit less than the MSRP of $799.
Thanks again for the input and reply.
